About

At 18 I left school educated in art, design and woodworking and by chance got a job working in graphics. But I always knew that I wanted to make guitars. It seems that I have tried to avoid just that and yet at the same time, I have been gravitating towards it and preparing for that moment.

I’ve been collecting books and magazines on guitars and guitar making since the age of 16.I trained here in France in cabinetmaking and ornamental sculpture, and by working in a furniture shop, building the display furniture have been able to invest in wood, tools and machinery.

Where I live in southern France, I am far from the London guitar stores that I visited in my youth and the music scene that inspired me so much. But that isolation has led me towards liking the unusual and uncommon and so the incredible harp guitar, an instrument from the past with a new future before it. I hope that the path that I am exploring, the nylon strung harp guitar, will open new perspectives for this instrument and for the musicians who would like to discover it.

I started building steel string guitars just for myself, and then when my children took up the classical guitar, I started making classical guitars and discovered a new world.

Then I came back to harp guitars. I had been thinking about them for years. I started making copies of Dyer harp guitars and I am now making my own style of harp guitar with a smaller body, a fan braced classical harp guitar and soon a flamenco harp guitar.

I am now sharing my guitar making passion with others, learning to accept compliments and criticism, and with the aim in mind to refine, improve and to sincerely do my best. Then also as a person to be open, sensitive and responsive to the needs of others.